DC The New 52: What the Convention Scene Staff is Buying

With all the hoopla about DC’s New 52 launching today with the release of Justice League #1, I thought it might be interesting to see what the staff of Convention Scene plan to pick up. Well, the answers range from all to none.

Richard says, “I’m intrigued of the major changes enough that I’ll probably read each of the first issues and whittle it down from there.”

As for myself, I’m a long-time DC reader, having started reading comics in the 1970s after watching the Super Friends cartoon. For me this is exciting and depressing at the same time. Change is always exciting, but at the same time, I’m not sure if I will left out. When Superman was changed for Man of Steel, I stopped reading Superman. When they changed Jason Todd’s origin in Batman (along with other changes), I stopped reading Batman. Will I still feel a connection to the new DC Universe? We’ll see. While I toyed with buying all 52 new issues, I knew some of them I wouldn’t buy after the first issue so I decided to pare it down to what I might actually buy, with the jury still out on a few of these. Here goes: